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09 November 1990 Everyone in the block who was occupying a squat received a letter a month ago, the letter stated that the case was going to court on the 30th of October. Everyone thought that after the 30th there would have been another 2 weeks and everyone would have…

09/10/1990 Had a crazy week! Last Tuesday I decided to stay at home with my mum and not move out. And I started a photography course last Monday. On Monday I developed my first film, I spent all my money on materials for the course. I can’t survive on just…

26/09/1990 We are back already, unfortunately. What a great trip. We arrived in Dublin at 23:00 on Thursday and Patrick’s relatives picked us up and took us to Ashbourne. We went straight to the pub for Patrick to drink proper Guinness and I met Patrick’s father’s four brothers. We went…

20/09/1990 Gustavo went back to Brazil a while ago, I think it was the 30th of August. Tomorrow night Patrick and I are going to Ireland to his nephew’s christening on Sunday. I wasn’t going but he insisted and I thought why not? We are going to Galway and I’m…

13/07/1990 I can’t find a pen anywhere, so I’ll use this pencil instead… Hum, where to start… On Saturday I went to Seven Sisters with 2 bags full of clothes. I got there at 5 and there was no one in the Brazilian squat. I went to the 14th floor…

17/07/1990 I was sent home early today from the restaurant as it was very quiet. There may not be any work for the next 2 weeks because of the summer holidays. That’s good but also bad as I’m skint and I bought a lot of things last week, and an…

19 June 1990 On Friday, before going to meet up with Sandra, James came here saying he got us an audition for Glastonbury, which is on next weekend. Patrick asked me to go with him but it’s too expensive. If we go to show capoeira we get in for free!…

15/06/1990 My writing is like this because I didn’t sleep last night. I’m like a zombie. All the interesting news are about Patrick so let’s go! On Tuesday he called me arranging to meet on Weds at 5:40 at Arsenal station. Except I understood he’d call me on Weds to…

11/06/1990 Mental hangover day… On Friday Patrick phoned me for us to arrange what to do at the weekend. I arranged for us to meet at the Brazilian squat at 5, on Saturday. Got there on Saturday and chatted to Denise and Robinson. Then Gustavo and some random man arrived.…